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Specializing in Private Tours of Israel and Israel's Lesser Known Tourist Attractions, the Gems.

My Family’s Story - Competition for B'nai Mitzvot

by Yael Adar

The Professor Yitzhak Halbrecht Family Tree Competition for Bar/Bat Mitzvah Students was established to help students aged 11-14 research their family’s roots in depth and enable them to add their
family to the database at the Jewish Genealogy Center. The competition is open to Jewish schools worldwide and is held annually by the Douglas E. Goldman Jewish Genealogy Center of Beth Hatefusoth
(Museum of the Jewish Diaspora).

Students are required to include information detailing:
* Family members’ names, birth dates, places of birth, marriage and death.
* Interviews with family members.
* Countries of origin and country specific history
* Photographs, migration maps and other documents
* Information about family experiences, traditions, holidays, and recipes

According to Martha Mazo, Project Coordinator, works are judged based on: Originality and esthetic presentation, the time and effort spent on researching the project and how the history of the
Jewish people is reflected in the individual family’s story. Mazo also noted that realizing the importance of some documents, submission of copies is allowed.

Each of the submitted works should clearly feature (at the beginning): the student‘s full name, class, name and address of the school (including country), email address of the school and/or
telephone and fax number.

Teachers are asked to submit the three or four best works, in their class with a $30 non-refundable registration-fee (per school) and a registration form to (see link below):